Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And Nehemiah, which is the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites that taught the people, said unto all the people, This day is holy unto the LORD your God; mourn not, nor weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd three hundred shields made he of beaten gold: three hundred shekels of gold went to one shield. And the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.
2 Chronicles
HistoryRemember this, and shew yourselves men: bring it again to mind, O ye transgressors.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd I gave the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, in the sight of Hanameel mine uncle's son, and in the presence of the witnesses that subscribed the book of the purchase, before all the Jews that sat in the court of the prison.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd he said unto her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water to drink; for I am thirsty. And she opened a bottle of milk, and gave him drink, and covered him.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, after the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
2 Kings
HistoryA stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd Hezekiah said unto Isaiah, What shall be the sign that the LORD will heal me, and that I shall go up into the house of the LORD the third day?
2 Kings
HistoryAnd I will set fire in Egypt: Sin shall have great pain, and No shall be rent asunder, and Noph shall have distresses daily.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be the LORD, that hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and hath kept his servant from evil: for the LORD hath returned the wickedness of Nabal upon his own head. And David sent and communed with Abigail, to take her to him to wife.
1 Samuel
HistoryBlessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonWhatsoever goeth upon the belly, and whatsoever goeth upon all four, or whatsoever hath more feet among all creeping things that creep upon the earth, them ye shall not eat; for they are an abomination.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to place his name there.
Deuteronomy
LawMeekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
Galatians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd all that handle the oar, the mariners, and all the pilots of the sea, shall come down from their ships, they shall stand upon the land;
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd we said unto my lord, The lad cannot leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die.
Genesis
Law / MosesUpon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.
Job
Wisdom / JobWherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd when he was come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came unto him as he was teaching, and said, By what authority doest thou these things? and who gave thee this authority?
Matthew
GospelsAnd the people asked him, saying, What shall we do then?
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd wherefore have ye made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in unto this evil place? it is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink.
Numbers
LawWoe to thee that spoilest, and thou wast not spoiled; and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd when they saw it, they all murmured, saying, That he was gone to be guest with a man that is a sinner.